And this will actually work, both the sky and the quad will render with their different textures.
So I was wondering if there is a point of allowing different textures to be stored under the same ID? From what I've quickly looked at direct3d, it doesn't do odd things like this.
I ask because I am writing my own effects system and am wrapping up certain opengl functions, and I am trying to decide on how to handle this, like maybe I should hide this functionality, since it seems pointless.
Thanks.

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The name spaces are separate for different texture dimensions. It means that two textures of different dimensions may have the same name returned by glGenTextures, not that one name returned by glGenTextures can be used for multiple textures of different dimension.

Your code is, therefore, logically incorrect. One ID should reference one texture, but you use one ID for multiple textures. In OpenGL 3.0 and up, you cannot allocate your own names anymore, and that code is, even in practice, invalid. Every object must be allocated by the corresponding glGen-function, and you cannot use object names that wasn't allocated.

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Original post by Brother BobThe name spaces are separate for different texture dimensions. It means that two textures of different dimensions may have the same name returned by glGenTextures, not that one name returned by glGenTextures can be used for multiple textures of different dimension.

What do you mean the glGenTextures may return the same name? Normally I thought it's just a different ID/name (I assume you are using name, ID interchangeably) is used per texture of any dimension.

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Original post by Brother BobIn OpenGL 3.0 and up, you cannot allocate your own names anymore, and that code is, even in practice, invalid. Every object must be allocated by the corresponding glGen-function, and you cannot use object names that wasn't allocated.

I didn't understand what you mean that you cannot allocate own names anymore. Is there somewhere I can read about how opengl 3.0 allocation of names is different from the previous versions?

Thanks.

[Edited by - andrew111 on April 30, 2010 11:58:29 AM]

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Original post by Brother BobThe name spaces are separate for different texture dimensions. It means that two textures of different dimensions may have the same name returned by glGenTextures, not that one name returned by glGenTextures can be used for multiple textures of different dimension.

What do you mean the glGenTextures may return the same name? Normally I thought it's just a different ID/name (I assume you are using name, ID interchangeably) is used per texture of any dimension.

You can ignore that. I thought for a moment you had to specify the dimension when allocating names, since the name spaces are different, but that is not the case. It will never return the same ID twice, unless it's deleted.

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Original post by Brother BobIn OpenGL 3.0 and up, you cannot allocate your own names anymore, and that code is, even in practice, invalid. Every object must be allocated by the corresponding glGen-function, and you cannot use object names that wasn't allocated.

I didn't understand what you mean that you cannot allocate own names anymore. Is there somewhere I can read about how opengl 3.0 allocation of names is different from the previous versions?

It is, or was, perfectly OK to allocate your own names and bypass glGenTextures.

GLuint ID = 1;glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, ID);

When allocating the names manually, it is (or, again, was) OK to allocated ID's separate for different texture dimensions. Thus, two textures could have the same ID, but since they belong to different dimensions, they reference different texture objects. Having two variables with the same ID is logically correct, but having the same variable for two textures is not.

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Original post by andrew111So I was wondering if there is a point of allowing different textures to be stored under the same ID? From what I've quickly looked at direct3d, it doesn't do odd things like this.

The ID returned by glGenTextures is different everytime you call it.

This is wrongglActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE_0);

it should beglActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);

I also suggest different variable names like (id1 and id2 instead of having id for both)glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, id1);glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_CUBE, id2); //cube target

also, there is no such thing as GL_TEXTURE_CUBE. There is something wrong with your glext.h file.

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